From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
wfg@linux.intel.com, lkp@01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:47:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150830074717.GA25396@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150829090701.GN20760@orbit.nwl.cc>
Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
>
> Should we introduce a new field to struct rhashtable to track the
> internal state? This might allow to clean up some rather obscure tests,
> e.g. whether a table resize is in progress or not.
Why would we want to do that? The deferred expansion is done
on a best effort basis so its failure has nothing to do with
the failure of a subsequent insertion.
The insertion must have tried its own last-ditch synchronous
expansion and only fail if that fails.
Cheers,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-30 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-28 10:28 [PATCH 1/3] rhashtable-test: add cond_resched() to thread test Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 10:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 11:09 ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-28 11:13 ` Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 13:34 ` Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 22:43 ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-29 9:07 ` Phil Sutter
2015-08-30 7:47 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2015-08-31 11:00 ` Phil Sutter
2015-09-01 11:43 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 12:46 ` Phil Sutter
2015-09-01 13:00 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 13:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-09-01 13:43 ` Phil Sutter
2015-09-01 13:50 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 13:56 ` Phil Sutter
2015-09-01 14:03 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 14:13 ` Thomas Graf
2015-09-01 14:16 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 14:51 ` Thomas Graf
2015-09-02 2:00 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-02 7:07 ` Thomas Graf
2015-09-10 8:03 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-10 10:05 ` Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 10:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] rhashtable-test: calculate max_entries value by default Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 11:11 ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-28 11:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] rhashtable-test: add cond_resched() to thread test Thomas Graf
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